Book summary
Краткое содержание: Человек со Сноуи-Ривер
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 8 key ideas
- Аудио скоро
A slight rider on a small mountain pony chases wild horses down a slope where one slip means death.
3 months free · unlimited eBooks, audiobooks and summaries, and print and large print at cost
Nothing to pay today · Мы отправим вам электронное письмо до списания средств. · Отмените онлайн в два нажатия
Человек со Сноуи-Ривер — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 1 h 35 min1 h 15 min fast, 1 h 55 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 22 900
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1890by А. Б. Патерсон
Reading time at 238 words a minute (fast 300, slow 200). Сколько времени нужно на чтение классики · Обновлено
Бесплатно на 3 мес.
Получите полное краткое содержание Человек со Сноуи-Ривер бесплатно
- 200 000+ классических книг в формате электронных книг, аудиокниг и кратких содержаний на 15 минут, а также печатные книги, в том числе крупным шрифтом, по себестоимости печати
- До 5 читателей в вашей семье на одном плане
Человек со Сноуи-Ривер in short
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses is a gathering of bush ballads made by a working storyteller for the people who lived the life he describes. It opens with a boy on a small pony who rides down a slope no one else dares, and closes with gold discovered beneath a swagman's grave. Between them lie horse races, outlaw chases, comic quarrels and sorrowful scenes.
What Человек со Сноуи-Ривер is about
What does it take to chase wild mountain horses down a slope where one slip means death? News of an escaped colt opens the title poem in The Man from Snowy River, a collection of ballads by the Australian writer A. B. Paterson. A slight rider on a small pony faces a drop that makes the boldest stockmen hold their breath.
Paterson wrote most of these verses for the Bulletin, a weekly paper in Sydney. The people in them are drovers, shearers, swagmen, troopers and jockeys, and they speak in their own words. You will meet racing tales, outlaws, comic yarns, poems of homesickness and the sound of the verse itself.
Для кого. Readers who enjoy galloping rhythms, campfire yarns, horses, open country and dry humour will love this collection. It also suits lovers of old songs read aloud.
The 8 key ideas
Key idea 1 · free to read
A bush poet gathers songs from the road
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses is a book of ballads by A. B. Paterson, who wrote for the Bulletin in Sydney. Most of the poems first ran there, so readers across Australia already knew many of them.
In a short prelude, Paterson says he gathered these stories far from town, in wind and rain, on the overland routes of the west. He made them in earnest and in jest during the night watches. He asks for nothing grand. One moment of delight for his old comrades will do.
The poems are written in the voices of people who work with stock and shear sheep in the sheds. A station hand, a swagman, a bush priest and a ruined squatter all take a turn. The book feels like a night around a fire where everyone tells a tale.
The places are real. The Castlereagh, the Bogan, the Lachlan and the Darling ride through the poems like old friends. The mood ranges from galloping chases to rough comedy to quiet pictures of drought and lonely graves. Paterson moves from a laugh to a tear within a page.
The book is one storyteller passing round his best yarns.
- 2Начните читать бесплатно
One small pony wins the mountain chase
The title poem begins with news running round a cattle station.
- 3Начните читать бесплатно
Racing tales honour grit more than glamour
Horse racing runs through the collection like a bright thread.
- 4Начните читать бесплатно
Outlaws and daring rides raise the stakes
Some poems leave the racecourse for the open bush, and the stakes rise.
- 5Начните читать бесплатно
Comic yarns turn trouble into laughter
Paterson is a born comic.
- 6Начните читать бесплатно
Town and bush pull the heart both ways
Several poems set a man at a desk in a city, longing for the open bush.
- 7Начните читать бесплатно
Quiet poems show grief and a social conscience
The collection has a serious side, and it appears mostly in short poems.
- 8Начните читать бесплатно
Rhythm and voice make the verse come alive
These poems are made for the ear.
Read all 8 key ideas now
3 months free, then 0,14 USD a day: unlimited eBooks, audiobooks and summaries, and print and large print at cost.
- Nothing to pay today
- Мы отправим вам электронное письмо до списания средств.
- Отмените онлайн в два нажатия
The whole book is coming to your plan
The full text of Человек со Сноуи-Ривер opens soon. Keep this summary as a file today.
Paperback, hardcover and large print, printed for you at cost, are on their way. Email me when it is printed
Вопросы о книге Человек со Сноуи-Ривер
What is The Man from Snowy River about?
The title poem follows a young rider on a small mountain pony who joins a group of stockmen chasing wild horses. Others doubt him, but his skill on a steep, dangerous descent shows what mountain horsemen can do.
Who is Clancy of the Overflow?
Clancy is a drover and horseman who appears in the title poem and gives his name to another poem. In that one, the speaker, stuck in a city office, imagines Clancy's life on the open plains and wishes he could swap places.
What else is in the collection besides the title poem?
There are racing ballads such as Old Pardon, comic yarns such as The Geebung Polo Club and A Bush Christening, outlaw tales, poems of homesickness such as On Kiley's Run, and short sad pieces such as Lost and The Swagman's Rest.
What is the main message of the book?
The poems honour courage, skill with horses, loyalty to mates and humour in hard times. They also show a deep attachment to the Australian bush and a care for the people who live and work there.
Как сослаться на это издание
Paterson, A. B. The Man from Snowy River. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-from-snowy-river.
Paterson, A. B. (2026). The man from Snowy River. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-from-snowy-river (Original work published 1890)
Paterson, A. B. The Man from Snowy River. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-from-snowy-river.
@book{paterson2026man,
author = {Paterson, A. B.},
title = {The Man from Snowy River},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-man-from-snowy-river},
note = {First published 1890}
}
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
The Iliad
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian GrayБесплатно на 3 мес.
Получите полное краткое содержание Человек со Сноуи-Ривер бесплатно
- 200 000+ классических книг в формате электронных книг, аудиокниг и кратких содержаний на 15 минут, а также печатные книги, в том числе крупным шрифтом, по себестоимости печати
- До 5 читателей в вашей семье на одном плане
